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		ken on Nov 2, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pycorn: interpreted OS written in Python http://www.unununium.org/ was an earlier attempt at this, and I think it was even self-hosting, but the site no longer even hosts their source code.

TimothyFitz on Nov 2, 2008 [–]

To contrast, Unununium was intended to use python to make rapid prototyping of novel userland functionality a reality. Pycorn looks like it's primarily a teaching tool. Both are cool conceptually.

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